Young
America’s Foundation is “proud” to present our annual Top Ten Politically
Correct Campus Offenses. The Foundation team reviewed 2010’s “best of the
worst” campus outrages, and compiled them into a top ten list. The list this
year was very competitive, so those schools “honored” should be very “proud” of
themselves.

Below are the 2010 Top Ten P.C.
Offenses, ordered from least outrageous to most outrageous:

#10: University of Arizona graduate student Jeffrey Koessler
logged on to his CatMail, the public email server provided by U of A, only to discover
a racist and discriminatory “quote of the day” provided by the administration
in charge of the CatMail. The quote stated, “Two symbols of the Republican
Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.” “I
didn’t expect to ever read anything like this on a public server,” responded
Koessler. “I was under the impression that
public Universities were non-partisan institutions. I found
it discriminatory and racist in nature, while re-enforcing the double
standard that exists regarding liberal and conservative philosophies.”

#9: Students at Langley
High School in McClean, VA were studying World War II this
year. Their teacher showed them a doctored image of the Iwo Jima flag raising,
with the McDonald’s logo in place of the American flag, during a "graded
discussion" on how McDonald's is trying to take over the world. The
insinuation was that service members are in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting for
McDonald's to have the ability to sell their delicious “Big Macs” and “Quarter
Pounders w/ Cheese.” The class then began discussing the significance of the
altered image and a book called Fast Food
Nation. The school’s principal responded to emails from concerned parents
with a lack of understanding on the issue and why veterans would find it so
offensive.

#8: For several weeks, student groups at Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania have called
for a boycott of Sabra brand hummus, the number one selling hummus brand in the United States and the
only brand sold on the two campuses. Alleging that The Strauss Group,
part-owner of Sabra Dipping Company, has sponsored “human rights abuses” as a
financial supporter of the Israeli Defense Forces, these students were
successful at making this “important” matter into a national controversy. Arguing that individual members
of the Golani Brigade have been prosecuted for human rights abuses in the past,
protesters claim that The Strauss Group and Sabra brand hummus should not be
the only available hummus option on campus. However, the protestors did not
provide any proof of the Brigade’s wrongdoing. At Penn, students have been protesting outside of dining halls and local
supermarkets chanting “No Justice, No Chickpeas.” Thankfully, a three-day referendum vote on the Princeton campus to have
Dining Services offer an alternative brand of hummus was defeated decisively. Dining
Services has expressed their willingness to continue to “work” with student
activists on this matter.

#7:Winston Salem State
University’s
chancellor of student affairs, Michelle Redford, sent out an email to all 6,400
students, staff and faculty, urging them to vote early and Democrat. The email
also solicited volunteers to work at the polls to distribute Democratic Party
Candidate Listings so that “all candidates are fairly represented and
supported!”

#6: Similarly, a
University of Texas at Austin
conservative group and other students received an email on their school
accounts from the local Democratic Party, urging them to “vote straight
Democrat.” The email was not sent out over a list serve, but had been sent to
individual students through the school’s password-protected student directory.
Someone with access was either sitting at a computer and randomly typing in
names and pulling email addresses from the directory, or a professor, student,
or an administrator gave the Democratic party access to these emails.

#5: Amy Hagopian, a professor of global health at
the University of Washington, has
been on a crusade to end military recruitment at local
high schools. In 2005,
she was behind the first successful effort in the U.S. to ban military
recruiters on a high school campus. She is also partly responsible for having
JROTC programs banned on nearby campuses. Recently, under the
guise of scholarship, she co-authored an article for the American Journal of Public Health that compares military
recruiters to child sex predators. Hagopian’s article is titled “Should
We End Military Recruiting in High Schools as a Matter of Child Protection and
Public Health?” and argues, “Military recruiter behaviors are
disturbingly similar to predatory grooming… behavior is defined as the
process by which a child is befriended by a would-be abuser in an attempt to
gain the child’s confidence and trust.”

#4: 13-year-old Cody Alicea rides with an American flag on the back of his
bike. He says he does this to be patriotic and to honor veterans, including his
own grandfather. He had the flag on his bike for two months, but during the
week of Veterans Day, Cody was asked to take it down. A school official at Denair Middle Schoolin Modesto, California, told Cody some
students had been complaining about the flag, and it was no longer allowed on
school property. "In this country we're supposed to be free," said
Cody. "And I should be able to wave my flag wherever I want to. And
they're telling me I can't." Apparently, the school was concerned the
American flag would cause racial tensions or uprisings.

#3: A student at Claremont McKenna College discovered that one of his professors
signed a pro-Hezbollah, anti-Israel petition that condemned “the Zionist
killing machine.” Rather than dismiss Professor Bassam Frangiehfor sympathizing with the terrorist’s
cause, the school has said that Frangieh is just exercising his First Amendment
rights. It took the school more than week to come up with that “response,” and
this story will most likely continue to develop in 2011.

#2:Student Activists at Buena High School in Sierra Vista, Arizona wished to participate in
Young America’s Foundation’s “No More Che Day” event by hanging up posters that
expose Che as a Communist murderer. When one of the students approached the
principal about hanging up YAF’s posters, abiding by the standard procedure for
any club or student to hang up posters around school, the principal told her
that she needed to learn more Latin American history and that saying that Che
Guevara was an International terrorist and mass murderer was simply an opinion.
The principal added that it was offensive to those who think of him as a hero, and
denied the request.

#1: Loyola University
Chicago refused to
allow Karl Rove to speak on campus in October, citing the importance of
maintaining “impartiality” so close to election season. The director of student
and Greek affairs said that the Rove event would be “problematic given the
campaign cycle,” even though Howard Dean and Ralph Nader were allowed to speak
in the month of September in past election years. Administrators also said that
having Rove speak would jeopardize the school’s 501(c)3 tax status, which Young
America’s Foundation’s lawyers and partners and found to be blatantly false.

Have a PC Offense that didn't make the list? Comment about it below! We could write a future blog post about it!

Readers' Comments

Ah, yes, the infamous Buena High School incident about "No more Che Day". I was utterly outraged with what the principle had said towards us! Utterly ridiculous! I couldn't believe she told us that the mass murdering of 15,000 Men, woman, and children is an opinion.

Posted by Nicholas on 01/05/2011

Instead of "No More Che" perhaps a day to honor Orlando Zapata Tamayo, Cuban Pro-Democracy activist or Las Damas de Blanco?
Of course, should the Buena Vista principal really want to open his or her mind, I'm sure we can find some folks to enlighten.

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